Essential Question: How can teachers use Social Media to engage students and emphasize 21st Century Skills?
Social Media in the Classroom
Social Media is all around us today. Most of us engage in social media fluidly throughout the day, as do most of our students. Do you know how powerful Social Media is in the world today? Social media isn't a fad that is going to go away, but has created an anchor hold on our society today! Businesses who do not use social media will quickly find themselves in trouble. Consumers rely on social media to make purchases and reveiw products. But what is the classroom implication? Watch the video below about social media and the power it yields.
As you watch
As you watch the above video, write down three things that surprise you from the video and post those in the Google Classroom thread. Discuss with your classmates the implications of using social media in the classroom. Can we as teachers capitalize on the highly engaging monster that is social media in our classrooms?
Using Twitter in the Classroom
Students today use Social Media like no other generation! Teachers can capitalize on this love of social media by teaching students how to use social media for learning. If we want students to use technology appropriately, we must teach them how to use it appropriately. One of the things we must teach them is how to be safe while using tools and what information is appropriate to share. If you are going to use Twitter in your classroom, be sure you understand what you need to teach students prior to launching a Twitter project. Explore this Guide to Using Twitter to help you determine your teaching steps leading up to using Twitter in your classroom.
How to use Twitter in the Classroom?
There are countless projects designed by teachers all over the internet. Explore some ways you could use twitter in the classroom by looking at these projects and project examples from teachers all over the country.
Find or create a twitter project you could use in your classroom. Post the project in Google Classroom and how you might use it with your students.
Fakebook.com
There are times that you want use social media to create projects for students without actually having to publish projects on the web or create social media profiles. This is especially true for younger students. Most younger students are aware of sites like Facebook because they have older siblings and parents who use them. However, most social media sites restrict students from using those sites. Teachers can replicate social media structure to design engaging projects for students of all ages.
Fakebook was created by a teacher for classroom use. Fakebook allows teachers to assign students to create a profile for a person, animal, inanimate object etc. While at first glance this project may seem simple, if you add accuracy of content to the equation, it quickly becomes a higher level project. For example, this elementary example of Charlotte's Web required students to read and understand the book in order to create the profile. http://www.classtools.net/fb/70/3Z6a8HF
Students could even create profiles based on inanimate objects, parallel lines for example. The "friends" of parallel lines should be of some 'relation' to parallel lines and the conversations and comments they have should relate back to the concepts of that inanimate object.
Once you click on the link below to the Fakebook page, you can actually explore the gallery of other projects people have created. Note the difference in higher level thinking from project to project. Some are very basic with typical friend comments on post, such as "hey, nice to hear from you" or "LOL". Pushing students to think how the person would relate to their friends on the page is important and also demonstrates that students understand the concept, person's life, etc. Use a rubric to ensure students are thinking about the project and really understanding the content/purpose of the project.
Using Fakebook, create a profile page for someone or something you study in class as an example of a project that students will do. Remember, it doesn't have to be a real person, it can be abstract or concrete.
You may see some examples of other Fakebooks here created by previous class members or by exploring the galleries on the Fakebook site.
Social Media in the Classroom
Social Media is all around us today. Most of us engage in social media fluidly throughout the day, as do most of our students. Do you know how powerful Social Media is in the world today? Social media isn't a fad that is going to go away, but has created an anchor hold on our society today! Businesses who do not use social media will quickly find themselves in trouble. Consumers rely on social media to make purchases and reveiw products. But what is the classroom implication? Watch the video below about social media and the power it yields.As you watch
As you watch the above video, write down three things that surprise you from the video and post those in the Google Classroom thread. Discuss with your classmates the implications of using social media in the classroom. Can we as teachers capitalize on the highly engaging monster that is social media in our classrooms?Using Twitter in the Classroom
Students today use Social Media like no other generation! Teachers can capitalize on this love of social media by teaching students how to use social media for learning. If we want students to use technology appropriately, we must teach them how to use it appropriately. One of the things we must teach them is how to be safe while using tools and what information is appropriate to share. If you are going to use Twitter in your classroom, be sure you understand what you need to teach students prior to launching a Twitter project. Explore this Guide to Using Twitter to help you determine your teaching steps leading up to using Twitter in your classroom.How to use Twitter in the Classroom?
There are countless projects designed by teachers all over the internet. Explore some ways you could use twitter in the classroom by looking at these projects and project examples from teachers all over the country.Assignment
Find or create a twitter project you could use in your classroom. Post the project in Google Classroom and how you might use it with your students.Fakebook.com
There are times that you want use social media to create projects for students without actually having to publish projects on the web or create social media profiles. This is especially true for younger students. Most younger students are aware of sites like Facebook because they have older siblings and parents who use them. However, most social media sites restrict students from using those sites. Teachers can replicate social media structure to design engaging projects for students of all ages.Fakebook was created by a teacher for classroom use. Fakebook allows teachers to assign students to create a profile for a person, animal, inanimate object etc. While at first glance this project may seem simple, if you add accuracy of content to the equation, it quickly becomes a higher level project. For example, this elementary example of Charlotte's Web required students to read and understand the book in order to create the profile.
http://www.classtools.net/fb/70/3Z6a8HF
Students could even create profiles based on inanimate objects, parallel lines for example. The "friends" of parallel lines should be of some 'relation' to parallel lines and the conversations and comments they have should relate back to the concepts of that inanimate object.
Once you click on the link below to the Fakebook page, you can actually explore the gallery of other projects people have created. Note the difference in higher level thinking from project to project. Some are very basic with typical friend comments on post, such as "hey, nice to hear from you" or "LOL". Pushing students to think how the person would relate to their friends on the page is important and also demonstrates that students understand the concept, person's life, etc. Use a rubric to ensure students are thinking about the project and really understanding the content/purpose of the project.
- Using Fakebook, create a profile page for someone or something you study in class as an example of a project that students will do. Remember, it doesn't have to be a real person, it can be abstract or concrete.
- You may see some examples of other Fakebooks here created by previous class members or by exploring the galleries on the Fakebook site.
- http://www.classtools.net/fb/72/ZcFiNPg
Use the Rubric to complete your assignment and upload your Fakebook link to the Google Classroom.http://www.classtools.net/fb/96/aj66VeY
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